Six companies have been approved for an $8,000 subsidy per house they build in North Platte, which will add 32 new single family homes and 6 duplexes in the city, including several near the Iron Eagle Golf Course. ...More

It is happening again in Norfolk -- a phone scam in which business owners and residents are falsely told their electricity will be shut off if they do not pay their electric bill immediately with a pre-paid, “Greendot” card....More

Selected by the White House as fertile ground to train and recruit high-tech and high-skilled workers, Buffalo County and Kearney begin an effort Thursday to reshape central Nebraska as a hub for the information technology sector....More

Half of Iron Eagle golf course is down from a prolonged flood that killed roughs, fairways, tee boxes and greens. The course superintendent unveils an affordable way to make repairs, but city councilmembers wonder if it is worth it at any price without protection from future floods. Also... the talented, gritty First National Junior baseball team fights to the state title game... more on the future of driverless semi-trucks... another car is extricated from the South Platte river... updates on property tax valuations and protests... donors help the Hedgecock family and the Episcopal church... a gripping case of young men, meth and violence... protection against foot and mouth disease in livestock... and more.

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